Hello, Time Travelers!
We are all fellow travelers.
we all time travel
slowly in same direction
drawn to death’s portal
I’ve been spending a lot of my life with time travel lately. I’m working on finishing the illustrations for the next issue of Weirdoku, my irregularly published haiku comics zine. This next issue is called Spare Bits of Waiting, and it’s all about time and time travel. I’m also finishing a collection of mostly non-illustrated science-fiction haiku, a large number of which also deal with time travel1.
I think all time travel stories are about immortality. We long to control the direction and duration of our lives. Of course, one of the most critical commonalities we humans share with every living thing on our planet (except turritopsis dohrnii, an immortal jellyfish) is that we are all going to die.
If all of us, every plant, creature, and person that we love, that we hate, and all those that we are ambivalent towards are going to die, why not be kind?
During my moments dealing with time travel poetry, the question I find myself asking is how can I be more kind with the life I have left?
Be the poetry you want to see in the world!
Cheers,
Jason
P.S. A small programming note. Tomorrow, the kind and talented
will be publishing my guest post in the fabulous Substack. It’s about how I fell in love with poetry the first time. I will be reposting that guest post here so the weekly haiku prompt post will be published on Friday this week.P.P.S. You really should subscribe to The Books That Made Us and M. E.’s other newsletter,
. The Books That Made Us has guest posts each week where writers share their thoughts and experiences with the literature that forged them. Cosmographia is a travel, literature, and history publication. It’s perfect for real adventurers and those of us whose current travel is strictly circumscribed by circumstance to our armchairs.I am also patiently working with Amazon, Ingram, and Lulu to get physical copies of my books in more places as well as continuing to expand my digital offerings. This, like everything, is taking more time than I expected.
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